# wish lists

Kipp the Kidd (mcmudge@mailbox.syr.edu)
Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:02:27 PDT

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    At 11:15 AM 7/24/96 PDT, jesse montrose wrote:
    >At 10:35 AM 7/24/96 PDT, Kipp the Kidd wrote:
    >>Yeah, verbing properties is a great idea, but it's too hard to create a verb
    >>for each property, and then request that the programmers /use/ the verb
    >>instead of the property.  On paradigm, there is a $root_class:_* which
    >>simply returns the property, and can be overridden (and often is) on any
    >>child.  But still the problem remains, the Programmers/Wizards, including
    >>myself, *never* use obj:_prop().
    >
    >But in a case that you want to force it, you could just make the prop -r and
    >-c...

    Sevral problems...

    One of them is I often need to code with wizard perms, and I don't follow my
    own verbing-properties rules.
    Even worse, all my other wizards work the same way.

    Another problem is that I want the :_* verb to really behave like a
    property...  When it's -r, it returns E_PERM...  Just like a property, so I
    want the verb to to behave as the property perms reflect.

    The last problem is +c and -c.  The C bit affects the behavior of /setting/
    a property, and I have no program for setting properties, so all C will do
    is cause problems.

    - Kipp
    http://radioactivo.com.mx/~paradigm